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Old 01-18-2008, 07:17 PM
Nico
 
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Default Re: why oh why does fedora use labels? why can't etc/fstab jsut show me the disks!!!


gavino wrote:
> damn it!
> how in fuck do I see what disk home is on?


While the systemm is running, you could type "mount" and read what it
reports, or directly read /etc/mtab.

The LABEL's are useful if you wind up moving drives around for any
reason. That especially occurs when switching controller cards,
sometimes when installing badly written drivers for controllers such as
the old Promise 20265 drivers from Promise, or when SCSI devices get
re-ordered by SCSI naming randomness.

They're also useful if you move the drive to a second machine to boot
with, but put it in an external bay or a separate internal controller.

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